{"id":105948,"date":"2023-07-31T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105948"},"modified":"2023-07-31T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:27:50","slug":"07-05-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=105948","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu to FOX: I won’t comment on internal affairs of other democracies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Netanyahu to FOX: I won’t comment on internal affairs of other democracies<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JERUSALEM POST STAFF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocracy balances the will of the majority with individual rights,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cThat balance has been thrown off the rails in Israel.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, July 30, 2023. \/ (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem\/Jerusalem Post)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told\u00a0FOX News’ Mark Levin<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday that he wouldn\u2019t comment on the internal affairs of other democracies, despite the fact that other nations have been forthcoming with their opinions about Israel’s internal dealings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in power, elected, again and again, six times, democratically,” Netanyahu said. “And it\u2019s a total of 16 years, and in all of these 16 years, I never commented on the internal debates and other democracies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister\u2019s comments came in response to a question from Levin about whether Netanyahu thought it was odd that other countries were trying to get involved in Israel’s current political issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOther leaders, elected leaders, can decide to [weight in on Israel\u2019s internal affairs]. Everybody has an opinion on Israel.\u201d \u00a0Netanyahu remarked. \u201cYou have a major debate between the\u00a0Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0and the executive [branch] right now in America. I don\u2019t really care to comment about it, but if people choose to comment about ours, it\u2019s OK, we\u2019ll make our own decisions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The prime minister went on to explain that, in his opinion, the global discussion surrounding\u00a0the reasonableness standard<\/a>\u00a0had been warped. He stated that no other democratic country has a comparable system in which the judiciary can strike down a governmental ruling, not because the ruling was illegal, but because the court subjectively felt it was \u201cunreasonable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Levin (credit: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is not weakening Israeli democracy, we\u2019re strengthening it,\u201d said Netanyahu. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing it back in line to where most democracies are, where Israel was in its first five decades, and where it should be now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What does “democracy” mean?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\u201cWhat is democracy?\u201d asked Netanyahu. “Democracy balances the will of the majority with individual rights or the rights of the minority.\u201d He went on to explain how this balance is achieved, lauding the United States\u2019 founding fathers for implementing a system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat balance has been thrown off the rails in Israel by, as I said, the most activist judicial court anywhere on Earth,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so when we try to restore it, that is said to be an affront to democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He further added that while he respects the individuals in the Israeli Supreme Court, they were not elected, and in order for Israel to operate as a better democracy, they could not have the ability to overrule a democratically elected government without proper legal justification.<\/span><\/p>\n

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